Quotes from Ander Crenshaw

The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida's domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.

On the First Coast, there's a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it.

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.

If we do not act quickly, Jaxport will fall behind competitors on the East Coast - and the economic engine that has driven this community for the past decade will be put in danger.

I can't think of a greater privilege than to speak out with legislation for people that can't often speak for themselves. And I know the ABLE Act will bring justice and peace of mind to millions of American families who deal with disabilities every day.

You've got to look at the promises I kept. It's not just talking about doing things: it's doing them.

Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

I have had no concerns in the past and have none moving forward regarding the Navy's ability to effectively address any potential natural or man-made threat to Naval Station Mayport and any military asset located there, including any future nuclear aircraft carrier.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

Time is money in the shipping business.

I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.

I showed people Republicans in Florida can do more than talk.

Every American has the freedom to choose a particular lifestyle, but that doesn't mean every American has to embrace a particular lifestyle as equally worthy.

I don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.